Noob here. Sorry in advance :/

Via lemmy community browser I managed to work out I want to subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/nba. And I think I did that correctly. It was added to my profile.

When I follow that subscription in my profile, it takes me to https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected]

This shows me some of the topics, but all the threads show 0 comments, vs the 100s of comments in https://lemmy.world/c/nba

I assumed federation meant that I could could subscribe, view discussions, and comment on aussie.zone server to another server’s communites.

How would I see all the topics, comments and be able to comment on the NBA community above?

  • MXYp3Lk66yKvOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ahhhh! If I subscribed to a community with 100s of TB of data, I see where that could mess things up XD.

    And on the outside internet world, I wonder what a search on eg duckduckgo is gonna return when a single thread is duplicated across 1000 lemmy servers…

    Federation/pub/sub are hard. Replication is hard. Duplication vs single source of truth is hard. Expiry is hard.

    Thanks for your response.

    • MXYp3Lk66yKvOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Since my OP, there are now some comments flowing through to various posts in aussie.zone NBA

      What I found interesting as well is that apparently only upvotes from that initial subscription time are included as well. Eg, this comment on aussie.zone currently shows 5 upvotes vs 19 at lemmy.world

      In the end, given the short lives of threads in these types of media, in a day or two it won’t matter; all the new posts/popular posts for the past couple of days will be here. Only the history will not be available, and I guess you can easily enough navigate to the original community via the ‘replicated’ community.